When nature removes a great man, people explore th — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
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Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
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[ Of Abraham Lincoln :] His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
When in doubt tell the truth .
Mark Twain
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
Mark Twain
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
Ernest Hemingway
When in doubt tell the truth .
Mark Twain
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
Mark Twain
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde